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Guest Len B'stard

Guest Len B'stard

I actually watched two reasonably new tv shows actually, Derek with Ricky Gervais and the one Stephen Merchant made over in America, it's actually quite funny y'know, i think it's the first time in a very very long time that i found some American sitcom funny.

Thing about American telly is, by my reckoning, the stuff thats meant to be funny is like, not funny but the stuff that ain't meant to be is fucking fabulous. As in like, comedy gold. Like I was watching this reality show thing and it's all about these brides to be and them getting all done up for their weddings and...basically the whole things based around this shop that does girls up for their wedding and they've got their obligatory tape measure poof and the obligatory strong minded professional woman and then the soft skinny one that gushes over everybody and like...the fuckin' results of this show are hilairious, it's funnier than any American comedy I ever saw.

Like this fat black bird comes up and she's like 'ooooh I always wanted to be Princess Diana and have a massive wedding and have this huge dress and, i dunno, all the bollocks girls want out of a wedding. And at the end of the show she comes out and she's like, gushing and everyone around hers going 'ohmigod, you look just like her, you look just like her!' and it's like, no you don't!!! Princess Diana, closest to royalty you're getting darling is Queen Latifah and you need to lose about 70 pounds even to get there

I seen loads of em too and i think it's fabulous, these weird shows like...there was this one show about this bird that was like the biggest tight arse ever and she lives off like, cutting out 5,000 coupons a week so she can do her shopping for a fiver and food thrown out of restaurants.

I think American TV entails getting these proper mental internally damaged fundamentally fucked up people, sticking a camera on em, poking em with a stick and seeing what happens, i love it, it's hilairious I love reality TV, it's the lowest cheapest most unjustifiably mishandled cultural experiment ever. There is a fundamental prurience and immorality to it that just make it the best TV ever, it is totally fake as shit and exploitative and it does so with a really glee, it's great